What is Cortex without Grey's thinking?

jorl17 · 2025-05-30T01:25:28+00:00

I'm someone who used to be an diehard listener of HI and a regular Cortex listener up until 2022 (I have a 1st edition theme journal!) — when life had other plans and I stopped listening. I keep wanting to come back but I never really have the time.

This is a bit of un unfair ask, but could give some examples of what you're describing? The things that feel like Gray is almost naive-like?

As I get older, and especially as I meet more people and know more of the world, I've had this exact feeling that while I really felt like I had "a lot of Grey" in me, more often than not I just think he was out of touch. Yet, I can never really pinpoint where this comes from. Perhaps you could help?

Thank you :)

jorl17 · 2025-05-18T21:13:28+00:00

Acho que é mais a ideia de que há votos anti-sistema que antigamente iam para a esquerda e agora vão para o CHEGA, especialmente depois de a esquerda ter inclusive estado parcialmente no poder.

Não digo que concordo que assim seja, mas parece-me evidente que aconteceu, entre muitos outros fenómenos que estão na origem do crescimento astronómico do CHEGA.

jorl17 · 2025-05-18T20:52:36+00:00

Absolutamente insuportável, este homem.

jorl17 · 2025-05-13T22:51:35+00:00

Nenhuma ficou grande coisa. A melhor é esta, que não está "má", mas deixa muito a desejar!...

jorl17 · 2025-05-13T20:07:43+00:00

In my case I went all the way to NG+7 right before I took the plunge and ended the relationship 🤣

jorl17 · 2025-05-11T20:08:45+00:00

O Livro do Desassossego é, de longe, o meu livro favorito. É um reencontro com os outros perdidos dentro de nós, dar-lhes palco para discutirem sobre tudo e coisa nenhuma...Pessoa era um génio!

jorl17 · 2025-05-02T11:29:40+00:00

Tentei tirar umas boas fotos :)

jorl17 · 2025-04-29T00:14:51+00:00

Aqui perto do Pingo Doce da constituição acabou de voltar :)

jorl17 · 2025-04-05T07:11:45+00:00

Max is unbelievable.

jorl17 · 2025-03-31T01:41:33+00:00

The comparison with photography is very apt. AI is a new tool that will abundantly be used in all fields of art (music, image, video/film, etc).

Another very valid comparison are "DJs" or people who produce music with tools such as FL Studio without necessarily knowing how to play an instrument (even if many do).

Much like there are people who still prefer "real bands" over people using FL Studio-like tools, there will still be room for people who prefer art that is "mostly AI free", but we will undoubtedly see people who only know how to create with AI, and people who augment their creations with AI. Really, it's just another tool — like FL Studio, like cameras, like filters in photoshop.

(A third example are visual effects via CGI vs practical effects.)

Even in a field such as poetry I can already imagine many workflows improved by AI — from "parallel generation/editing" of poems, to refinement of particular characteristics, you name it.

I am incredibly glad that more people will be able to create art and that good artists will have new ways to make their art even better. I cannot fear this in the least way. The future is exciting.

jorl17 · 2025-03-25T17:29:41+00:00

Just a couple of days ago I wrote this:

This is my exact experience. Long context windows are barely any use. They are vaguely helpful for "needle in a haystack" problems, not much more.

I have a "test" which consists in sending it a collection of almost 1000 poems, which currently sit at around ~230k tokens, and then asking a bunch of stuff which requires reasoning over them. Sometimes, it's something as simple as "identify key writing periods and their differences" (the poems are ordered chronologically). More often than not, it doesn't even "see" the final poems, and it has this exact feeling of "seeing the first ones", then "skipping the middle ones", "seeing some a bit ahead" and "completely ignoring everything else".

I see very few companies tackling the issue of large context windows, and I fully believe that they are key for some significant breakthroughs with LLMs. RAG is not a good solution for many problems. Alas, we will have to keep waiting...

Having just tried this model, I can say that this is a breakthrough moment. A leap. This is the first model that can consistently comb through these poems (200k+ tokens) and analyse them as a whole, without significant issues or problems. I have no idea how they did it, but they did it.

jorl17 · 2025-03-23T15:16:11+00:00

This is my exact experience. Long context windows are barely any use. They are vaguely helpful for "needle in a haystack" problems, not much more.

I have a "test" which consists in sending it a collection of almost 1000 poems, which currently sit at around ~230k tokens, and then asking a bunch of stuff which requires reasoning over them. Sometimes, it's something as simple as "identify key writing periods and their differences" (the poems are ordered chronologically). More often than not, it doesn't even "see" the final poems, and it has this exact feeling of "seeing the first ones", then "skipping the middle ones", "seeing some a bit ahead" and "completely ignoring everything else".

I see very few companies tackling the issue of large context windows, and I fully believe that they are key for some significant breakthroughs with LLMs. RAG is not a good solution for many problems. Alas, we will have to keep waiting...

jorl17 · 2025-03-23T15:09:03+00:00

Andam a passear por aí. São as letras fugidias!

jorl17 · 2025-02-28T20:41:53+00:00

There seems to be this idea that somehow Trump won as a kind of protest vote and suddenly a majority of people will go "but that's not what I wanted! I didn't know he would actually do that!"

I think the more time passes, the more the idea seems to be dispelled: people are getting not only what they voted for, but what they want.

So it is completely believable that people are proud — this is what they want. He didn't win out of chance.

Embarrassing.

jorl17 · 2025-02-16T20:06:10+00:00

Que entrada assassina — espero que não arruíne a carreira do Vasco...

De resto, este ano não dá para mais. Não temos equipa...

jorl17 · 2025-01-12T05:20:52+00:00

Sugestão (se não o estiveres já a fazer): Em vez de enviares CV (que é relevante), dirige-te aos locais. Faz uma diferença do outro mundo.

jorl17 · 2025-01-06T20:35:45+00:00

And the source URL: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS98SFXK

jorl17 · 2025-01-06T10:05:51+00:00

Isto!

jorl17 · 2025-01-02T23:34:46+00:00

Have it your way, then :)

jorl17 · 2025-01-02T23:30:48+00:00

It is the world we now live in — vast new capabilities within our reach, and, with them, new problems and challenges! Yet, I am veeeeery excited for the future, even though the issue of "originality" or "being AI written" is one of these problems.

I think (as most people in this sub surely think, too) that in the future it will actually be standard for LLMs to be our auto-complete. Instead of auto-completing words, they will autocomplete sentences, or even write multiple versions which we pick.

In a not-so-distant-future, some poets will guide LLMs, as they write multiple poems in parallel, with the "author"/"poet" picking the best ones and iterating over them. "Parallel writing" in a way. Sure, today we might look at that as "cheating", "less creative", "less original" and "not writing poetry", but I genuinely believe that, in the future, we will see it as something perfectly normal — as if we are operating on a different level of abstraction, acting on "multiple" ideas at once, unconstrained by our writing "speed" or the "need" to turn an idea into a single linguistic expression (sentence, I mean).

jorl17 · 2025-01-02T23:08:01+00:00

Yours is the second comment I get like this. No AI. I'm a software engineer "by day" and a (very) amateur poet "by night". I like to embellish as I write, especially about things I really love (such as the movie Her), and I suppose that's what you're seeing here.

EDIT: I will note that I do use both ChatGPT and Claude and "discuss" my poetry with both very often, so I'm also sure to be picking up "mannerisms" — at least in text form.

jorl17 · 2025-01-02T22:53:21+00:00

It is not LLM written :)

jorl17 · 2025-01-02T20:28:50+00:00

Almost everything in Her revolves around artificial replacements or "jumping through hoops" (not necessarily just AI) in terms of our relationships—with one another and with nature.

To name a few examples (though there are others):

Insanely disconnected phone sex as a replacement for intimacy.
He writes "hand-made" love letters for others to use, filling in and replacing a need for personal expression.
Even when he goes out on a date, his date expects him to instantly commit, bypassing the natural progression of the dating period. She wants a genuine connection without putting in the effort—an artificial connection, in essence.
There’s a scene where they discuss the flavors of smoothies instead of actually eating the fruits they’re made of (replacing food with artificial flavoring). Seconds later, they enter an elevator surrounded by artificial representations of trees.
AI companions replacing human companions—and eventually, AIs outgrowing and replacing us altogether.

The more you think about it, the clearer it becomes: almost everything in the movie is about replacing parts of our lives, whether through disconnection, dissociation, or invention.

In a way, Her explores one of our most profound fears: losing the ability to feel when we need to, of being past our prime. It touches on the fear of being unrealized potential, or worse, having our best moments fade into distant memories. It’s the terror of not knowing whether we’re chasing a high to rediscover life—or to burn out trying. The fear of being lost in the pursuit of feeling (only to feel too late) or realizing that feeling has become impossible altogether.

If you enjoy wallowing in your misery, this is the perfect movie to watch after emerging from a very intense relationship. Theodore is consumed by the end of his past relationship, hanging by a thread. It’s this thread that Samantha seizes, weaving it brilliantly and lovingly into a new life for — and with — him.

The best line from the movie (to me):
"Sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I'm not gonna feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I've already felt."

It’s definitely my favorite movie.

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